Operation Nehemiah: News Update #167

7 January 2015

Australia - New laws will ban trips to Iraq, Syria

LANDMARK laws banning Australians from travelling to terror hot spots such as Iraq and Syria will be introduced to federal parliament next week. The laws will make it an ¬offence to travel to any terrorist region without a legitimate reason that can be verified.

According to an English translation of a report posted Friday at the German-language RP Online, a group of Muslim children, including one teenager, disrupted a Christmas service at a church in the city of Mönchengladbach-Rheydt.

A driver shouting the Islamic phrase "God is great" in Arabic has run down pedestrians in Dijon, France, injuring 11, two seriously, French media say. He was arrested after targeting pedestrians in five different parts of the city in the space of half an hour.